| 100% | GUILT | 5 | Burden of the conscience-stricken |
| 58% | NAGSAT | 6 | Bothers the conscience of |
| 57% | KNEECAP | 7 | Start of the strike zone |
| 56% | KNEE | 4 | Lower end of the strike zone |
| 54% | ASHAMED | 7 | Stricken by the conscience |
| 54% | WIDE | 4 | Out of the strike zone, in a way |
| 54% | FRAN | 4 | ___ Drescher, leader of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike |
| 54% | RIGHTONUS | 9 | The burden of being morally good? |
| 53% | CANTOR | 6 | Star of the 1936 film Strike Me Pink: Eddie __ |
| 52% | GOOD | 4 | Batter's command of the strike zone, in baseball lingo |
| 52% | GLORIASTEINEM | 13 | Co-organizer of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality |
| 52% | SLAP | 4 | Strike someone with the palm of your hand |
| 52% | SMOTE | 5 | Struck, as with the jawbone of an ass |
| 52% | BIGMOUTH | 8 | __ Strikes Again, The Smiths' song of 1986 |
| 51% | SHOULDERED | 10 | Assumed the burden of |
| 51% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 50% | SEWER | 5 | “The conscience of the city,” per “Les Misérables” |
| 49% | FLYNN | 5 | One of the Mudville players on base when the mighty Casey struck out |
| 49% | CLUBHEAD | 8 | Part of a driver that strikes the golf ball |
| 49% | STAGESETS | 9 | They're struck at the end of a run |
| 47% | TAS | 3 | Ones having the burden of prof? |
| 47% | EDITORS | 7 | Ones under the burden of proof? |
| 47% | TUROW | 5 | "The Burden of Proof" author |
| 47% | BAULK | 5 | In croquet, either of the two lines from which a ball is struck into play |
| 47% | SESS | 4 | It often starts with the striking of a gavel, for short |
| 46% | TUROW | 5 | "The Burden of Proof" novelist Scott |
| 46% | DOG | 3 | Temple of the ___, "Hunger Strike" former rock group that reunited in 2016 for a tour |
| 45% | ASS | 3 | Animal known as the beast of burden, with a name originating from Latin |
| 45% | CUE | 3 | Long tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 45% | CUE | 3 | Long, tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |